“Realism and the “Rise of Asia”
Colleen Lye is associate professor of English at UC Berkeley. She is the author of America’s Asia: Racial Form and American Literature, 1893-1945 (Princeton, 2005) which won the Cultural Studies Book Award from the Association of Asian American Studies and was a finalist for the John Hope Franklin Prize from the American Studies Association. She has been involved in several collaborative editorial projects, including most recently: “Financialization and the Culture Industry,” a 2014 special issue of Representations;” Peripheral Realisms,” a 2012 special issue of MLQ; “The Humanities and the Crisis of the Public University,” a 2011 special issue of Representations; and “The Struggle for Public Education in California,” a 2011 forum in SAQ. She serves on the editorial boards of Representations, Inter-Asia Cultural Studies, and Verge. From 2013-2015, she was co-chair of the Berkeley Faculty Association. She is a fellow at the National Humanities Center in 2015-2016, where she is completing a book on the Asian American Sixties.